The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: South Africa
Bähre, C. 2007
‘Reluctant solidarity: death, urban poverty and neighbourly assistance in South Africa’, Ethnography, 8:1, 33-59.
Canham, H. 2023
Riotous Deathscapes, Durham: Duke University Press.
Case, A. & Menendez, A. 2011
‘Requiescat in Pace? The consequences of high- priced funerals in South Africa’, in C. Wise (ed.) Explorations in the Economy of Ageing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 351-374.
Case, A., Garrib, A., Menendez, A. & Olgiati, A. 2013
‘Paying the piper: the high cost of funerals in South Africa’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 61:1, 1-20.
Coetzee, C. A., Van Heerden C.H. & Maree, T. 2014
‘The marketing of an unsought service through an unobtrusive medium: a content analysis of the websites of members of the National Funeral Directors Association of South Africa’, Communicare: Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa 33:1, 35-56.
Lee, R. 2011
‘“Death on the move”: funerals, entrepreneurs and the rural-urban nexus in South Africa’, Africa, 81:2, 226-247.
Martin, J., van Wijk, C. & Hans-Arendse, C. 2013
‘“Missing in action”: the significance of bodies in African bereavement rituals’, Psychology in Society, 44, 42-63.
Molyneux, C. 2001
‘Changing attitudes to funeral customs in the new South Africa’, Mortality, 6:2, 125-126.
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Ngubane S. 2012
‘Death and burial practices in contemporary Zulu culture’, Mankind Quarterly, 53:1, 91–109.
